Holy crap, that was long. I’m used to Pettis’ style of fast-action editing, and this thing could’ve easily been condensed into 3 minutes. I didn’t know he had left MAKE for so long, I kinda liked his week-end projects.

Yeah, I like Collin’s relaxed, basic videos.. There are plenty of in-depth, overly-compicated sources of information on the type of things he covers, so it’s a nice change of gear to put on a light, myth-busters level video about the little lost things I often wonder about, but don’t take the time to find out.

Also, there always seems to be a comment about how slow or long or basic, or whatever, Collin’s videos are (see hack-a-day comments, for example).

Those people will just have to reconcile themselves that they are smarter, quicker and shorter-of-attention-span than the rest of us humans – and look on us with pity as we try mash the world of information through our thin, sieve-like brains, hoping something will stick.. problem is, the good facts are powdery-fine and slip right through.

Lumpy stuff like nascar and god seem to stick in a brain a bit too easily, however.

Re comment #2: Nope, he got the anode/cathode right. Anode and cathode are defined by current direction, not by charge. The positive terminal on a battery cell is its cathode, but the positive terminal on a diode is its anode. For both battery and diode, however, electrons flow into the device through its cathode and out of device through its anode (and current, by convention, “flows” in the opposite direction).